Chadwell is a small village in the district of Melton, which is approximately northeast of

Melton Mowbray Melton Mowbray () is a market town in the Borough of Melton, Melton district in Leicestershire, England, north-east of Leicester and south-east of Nottingham. It lies on the River Eye, Leicestershire, River Eye, known below Melton as the Rive ...

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, and is part of the civil parish of

Scalford Scalford is a village and civil parish in the Melton borough of Leicestershire, England. It lies to the north of Melton Mowbray at the southern end of the Vale of Belvoir. In the 2011 census the parish (including Chadwell and Wycomb) had a ...

, which also includes the neighbouring hamlet of

Wycomb Wycomb is a small hamlet in the district of Melton, which is approximately northeast of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, and is part of the civil parish of Scalford, which also includes the neighbouring village of Chadwell. Until 1 April 19 ...

. Until 1 April 1936 it was in the parish of

Wycomb and Chadwell Wycomb is a small hamlet in the district of Melton, which is approximately northeast of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, and is part of the civil parish of Scalford, which also includes the neighbouring village of Chadwell. Until 1 April 19 ...

. The village name (originally recorded as Caudwell) means 'spring/stream which is cold'. Chadwell is half a mile east of

, and they share the Church of St. Mary in the same ecclesiastical parish. The Church of St Mary is a

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building.

History

Mentioned in the Domesday Book Survey of 1086, Chadwell was a settlement in the

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Framland Framland was a hundred in north-east Leicestershire, England, roughly corresponding to today's borough of Melton. It was recorded in the ''Domesday Book'' as one of Leicestershire's four wapentakes. The name remains in use as a deanery of the Dio ...

, Leicestershire. It had an estimate recorded population of 23 households in 1086. The Church of St Mary, started out as a chapel, with parts of the structure dating back to the 12th century. Not long after the Inclosure Act 1773, it was recorded that 750 acres of land in and around "Caudwell and Wykeham" belonged to the "Parish of Rodeley". Among the parish landowners, influential figures included the lord of the manor, Thomas Babington, esq., the

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and the Brethren of

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. in 1790, the Church of St Mary was still listed as a chapel, but the two settlements, and their surrounding 750 acres, were considered an outlier of East-Goscote

, within the Hundred of Framland. By 1879, the Waltham branch of the Great Northern Railway ran between the two settlements, adding a

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on the western end of the village. It was by this point, the Church of St Mary was identified as a church. Other listed buildings and structures in the village include: Spring Cottage, Manor Farmhouse, and two Chest Tomb's located a few metres south of the southern porch of the Church of St Mary; all are

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Geography

The village is situated on Oadby Member Till that is underpinned by three bands of Middle Jurassic bedrock

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formations; from the approach into the village from the west is Whitby Mudstone (pale-grey mudstone, 174-183 million years old), followed by Marlstone Rock (Iron-grainstone, 174-191 million years old), then after the church it is Dyrham Formation (grey siltstone, 183-191 million years old). The superficial deposits of the Oadby Member Till give way to

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and

alluvial Alluvium (, ) is loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings. Alluvium is also sometimes called alluvial deposit. Alluvium is ...

river deposits as you head down towards the stream.

References

External links

Scalford Parish Council: Serving the people of Scalford, Chadwell and Wycomb
{{authority control Villages in Leicestershire Borough of Melton